So I show up at the doctor's office today for an appointment I made two months ago. I have this cold that just won't go away and a sore on my side which is persistent as well, and it's time to take care of it. I am told that my appointment has been cancelled, that I was called two weeks ago and that the next appointment will be at the end of November. So basically, the idea is that I'm cancelled two weeks before an appointment and told it will take another two months before I can see my GP for a physical...
There's something wrong here. Am I going to be cancelled two weeks before my next appointment and be told that the next one will be in February. You know I could do this with Revenue Canada... "I'm not going to pay my taxes now but I'll pay you in two months"...
I don't know if you know but Dan redid his entire house. He had this little home on a small land. He took it, moved it forward and then created a full basement for it, doubling the size. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the thing is, he's done a lot of it himself to save money. Now we don't have that much time. Most of the time not spent on family life for me is spent working and I don't want to lose what little time I have with my adorable kids so we've decided to ask Dan to give us a hand with some renovs. One important one was the shower that was leaking in the kitchen ceiling. Dan was able to figure out where the problem was, fix it and then re plaster the ceiling in a 1/4 of the time it would have taken me, and I'm not sure I would have done such a good job anyway. Thanks Dan, it was fantastic work.
http://www.48valoiswork.blogspot.com/
This way I get to spend more time with Suzanne, Sabrina and Mathieu. We got to see Max one day this week and it was great. He was real nice to his younger siblings and even Mathieu was warming up to him. Sabrina was happy, it had been so long since she'd seen him. He's doing good. Some may say he spent too much time in front of video games and computers when he was smaller but he turned out okay. School and work are going well and I'm real proud. Sabrina is also in school, in an interesting kind of daycare/pre-kindergarten inside a college where she made herself a friend called Sarah. The class is used as a teaching environment for students who want to become teachers or daycare workers. Sabrina likes it so much we have to be careful not to tell her too early she's going to it or she'll be waiting at the door all day. She's there on Mondays and Wednesdays. She's integrated quite well and tends to do so when there are other kids involved. Once someone told us that because we weren't putting our kids in daycare they would be anti-social... Yeah right.
Then again that's the first questions families here get when someone sees you have a kid: nice kid, got a place in daycare yet?
What happened to raising your kids at home? That's the way my mom did it and we turned right.
I have nothing against daycare except for when it's used for parents to dump their kids.
Mathieu is very friendly and charms everyone he sees. He now walks really well and is very proud of the way he walks. He turned eleven months two days ago but sometimes I forget he's not even one yet. I tend to treat him a lot older then he really is, poor little guy. I think I've done this with all my kids. I'm not a strong believer in talking like a baby to your kids.
